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• What change in rules means for migrants and employers

Care providers are worried about the proposals to end the international recruitment of care workers. In a statement issued yesterday, Jane Townson, CEO of the Homecare Association, which represents homecare providers, said:

International recruitment is a lifeline for the homecare sector, enabling us to provide vital support to older and disabled people in their own homes. Care providers are already struggling to recruit within the UK. We are deeply concerned the government has not properly considered what will happen to the millions of people who depend on care at home to live safely and independently.

The big problem that we would have is if we weren’t able to recruit any overseas staff because recruiting locally is very, very difficult.

We try all the time to recruit locally. We put our wages up, we still don’t get applicants.